Surprise Caused by Its Imposition Peking, Dec. 1.
Some surprise has-been occasion: ed here by the imposition of the Luxury Tax from to-day in view of the recent statement of the Ministry of Finance postponing the levying of the tax till January 1, 1928.
The tax, however, is apparently] being levied at present only on reali luxuries, such as curios, jewellery] and very fine silks and only on fresh imports—not on sales of the existing stocks of merchants, as was originally intended—Reuter.
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